Book trends and stage adaptations in early 20th century press
The Bookman lists reveal March best sellers topped by The Real Adventure and Life of Gabriella with Seventeen and Dear Enemy nearby. Non fiction includes Eat and Grow Thin and My Year of the Great War among others. Ramona film adaptation boosts sales. Barnabetta becomes Erstwhile Susan. Lippincott’s merges into McBride’s. Harper’s Weekly to join Independent.
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Webster
Gabriella
Glasgow
Tarkington
MacFarlane
Lippincott’s Magazine
McBride, Nast and Company
McBride’s Magazine
Scribner’s Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Independent
Lutherans Plan 8th Annual Potomac Conference in Stephens City
The Potomac Conference of the Lutheran Synod of Virginia schedules its 8th annual meeting May 23 to 26 at St. Paul’s Church near Stephens City. Rev. R H Cline leads local clergy with Rev. J W Link as president and Rev. B A Copenhaver as secretary. Sessions cover sermons, organizational business, and debates on Augsburg Confession, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and a strong focus on church growth and education.
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Stephens City
Potomac Conference
Lutheran Snyod of
Virginia
St. Paul's Church
Fawcett Gap
Shenandoah Valley
St. Paul’s Church
R. H. Cline
S. W. Kuhns
Fox
H. D. Chapman
I. D. Worman
Peter Milter
J. A. Huffard
Scientific Farming Probes Land Use Efficiency and Drainage
The piece reports that 46.2 percent of U S land is in farms and only 40 percent of cultivated land is well cultivated with 12 percent yielding maximum net returns. It notes many farms run at a loss, with 30 percent of 2 000 surveyed showing minus labor income. Poor drainage and low humus soils cut profits. drainage improvements can turn unprofitable tracts into profitable land, urging better management and reduction of labor on loss making acres.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin
Tools For Indoor Gardening
Tools for indoor gardening include a large sheet of wrapping paper a ruler and a pencil. After inspecting the garden select the plot of soil best suited for your purpose measure it and outline it on paper at a scale of one fourth or one eighth inch to the foot.
Miss Rutherford Graduates for Federal Service
Miss Elsie Love Rutherford of Winchester joined twenty four other nurses in earning diplomas at the University Hospital Training School for Nurses in Baltimore. The graduation, held in Lehmann Hall, featured speeches by Drs. Winslow Shipley Fell and a musical program before a dance and refreshments.
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Elsie Love Rutherford
Winchester
University Hospital Training School
Baltimore
Lehmann Hall
Camilla
Cornelia Rutherford
School Children Have A Picnic
WHITE POST Virginia May 19 The public school closed Saturday The teachers Miss Hallie Chrisman and Miss Carrie Strange entertained the school with a picnic Monday at the old Bell Spring on Mr Charles Fritt s farm Captain Smiley of Staunton Mr Bowman of Harrisonburg and Mr Hammond of Bluefield West Virginia were visitors here recently Miss Louise Gibbs of Woodstock is spending the week with her aunt Mrs P W Bowers Mr Charles Bardners family attended the Friends meeting at Hopewell last Sunday Miss Phadonia Ritter of Winchester is visiting friends in the neighborhood
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White Post
Hallie Chrisman
Carrie Strange
Charles Fritt
Captain Smiley
Staunton
Bowman
Harrisonburg
Hammond
Bluefield
W. Va
Louise Gibbs
Woodstock
P. W. Bowers
Charles Bardner
Hopewell
Phadonia—Ritter
Winchester J
Lola Ena
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Front Royal
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